2000
DOI: 10.1086/501780
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Antibiotic Use in Developing Countries

Abstract: Antimicrobials have been used successfully for over 6 decades, but genes expressing resistance to them have emerged in strains of bacteria and have disseminated through the global ecosystem to reach infecting microorganisms, produce disease, and seriously interfere with therapy, allowing infections to progress and kill despite antibiotic administration. The upsurge in prevalence of such resistance genes in the bacterial population that colonize and infect humans involves two processes, emergence and disseminat… Show more

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“…24 this practice which has been observed in both industrialized and developing countries [24][25] is more common in the latter due to the poor socioeconomic status of the people and poor accessibility to barely available medical facilities. 24,[26][27][28] Factor that could encourage self medication among university students have been identified as assumed knowledge of diseases and their treatments, prior experience on the use of antibiotics, lack of time to visit physicians and poor financial status. 17,20 Incomplete course of antibiotic treatment was observed among the respondents in this study.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…24 this practice which has been observed in both industrialized and developing countries [24][25] is more common in the latter due to the poor socioeconomic status of the people and poor accessibility to barely available medical facilities. 24,[26][27][28] Factor that could encourage self medication among university students have been identified as assumed knowledge of diseases and their treatments, prior experience on the use of antibiotics, lack of time to visit physicians and poor financial status. 17,20 Incomplete course of antibiotic treatment was observed among the respondents in this study.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…2016). Maximization of profit, availability, affordability on the part of the veterinarian, and/or ignorance, may also be reasons why majority of respondents in this study neglect drug quality (Okeke et al, 1999;Isturiz and Carbon, 2000;Coyne et al, 2016). Veterinarians' ability to profit from the sale of antibiotics has been highlighted as a potential conflict of interest in ABS (Rollin, 2006;WHO, 2001;Coyne et al, 2016).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Health professionals are also not exempted from the practice of recommending antibiotics for viral infections such as cold, upper respiratory tract infections or non-infective diarrhea 11 . Previous studies showed that university undergraduate students are involved in misuse and abuse of various drugs 7,12,13,14 . However, in Nigeria, implementation of regulations governing the distribution, sales and use of antibiotics and other prescription medicines are weak, and sometimes non-existent 15 .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%